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Four candidates vying to succeed Saxe-Coburg as NMSP leader

Fri, Nov 27 2009 12:12 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Four candidates vying to succeed Saxe-Coburg as NMSP leader

Simeon Saxe-Coburg.

Photo: Georgi Kozhuharov

The National Movement for Stability and Progress (NMSP), the party founded around Simeon Saxe-Coburg and which went from a landslide election victory in 2001 to winning no seats in Parliament in 2009, is to hold a national congress on November 28 2009 to elect a new leader and establish a new direction for the party.
 
Saxe-Coburg, Bulgaria’s former child monarch, was prime minister from 2001 to 2005 and his party served in the socialist-dominated tripartite coalition until July 2009 and the election victory of Boiko Borissov’s GERB party.
 
The NMSP won a few seats in Bulgaria’s 2009 European Parliament elections but lost all its seats in the National Assembly elections. Soon afterward, Saxe-Coburg said that he was resigning as leader.
 
Bulgarian-language media said on November 27 that there were four candidates to succeed Saxe-Coburg as party leader: former cabinet ministers Nikolai Vassilev and Hristina Hristova, former MEP Biliana Raeva and financier Iliya Lingorski.
 
The NMSP said that the congress, being held at Sofia’s National Palace of Culture, will see 800 delegates elect the party leader and decide a new direction.
 
Each of the candidate leaders had submitted a concept for the development of the party over the next four years, the NMSP said.
 
The vision for the future of the party has been set out in a draft statute, to be put to the vote at the congress.
 
 

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